水流湿,火就燥 in English
- (idiom) Water flows toward damp places and fire burns dry material.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
水
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
流
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢至魏晉 - See all 15 forms
湿
These are the forms of 濕, the traditional character: 湿 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
火
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
就
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
燥
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 5 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).